Elevators, or as we Brits call them, dangleboxes, get a fair showing in gaming. Very few FPS titles will let you reach their final bossmonster without having had at least one go on the world’s slowest ride, giving you a moment’s pause, before they inevitably shudder to a halt as you’re ripped out of the side of the building by something with more tentacles than manners. But until now (to my knowledge at least, inevitable person who knows of a game on the Amiga) they’ve yet to receive a game dedicated just to them. And that’s what we have in the Half-Life 2 mod, Elevator: Source. YES.

Created by the undeniable geniuses at Pixeltail Games, Elevator: Source is a no-holds-barred elevator simulator, that requires Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Garry’s Mod be installed on your machine. And I really suggest you do.

Because right now I’m in the lift with a man called Lizard Wizard, someone called Barney whose head is on fire, and a skellington called Jaykin. Watching through the elevator doors as a factory line of dancing pixel robots go past, over a pit of fire. Before the doors close and we’re off somewhere else. Barney and Jay keep giving each other furtive glances. And now we’ve stopped at the seaside, where Derek in his yellow rubber ring and blue suit has just got on board.

This is bloody brilliant. For the first time in my life, I desperately want to play a game in multiplayer. It has made me laugh out loud so many times.

Not convinced? Here are a group of people playing it together for 45 minutes.

Elevator action wasn’t exactly dedicated to elevators so John isn’t completely wrong but it had elevator in the title and they played an important part (especially in the first game, Elevator Action Returns was a really nice platform/shooter but Elevator it’s less about elevators) so he should have least have mentioned it.

“Elevators, or as we Brits call them, dangleboxes, get a fair showing in gaming. Very few FPS titles will let you reach their final bossmonster without having had at least one go on the world’s slowest ride, giving you a moment’s pause, before they inevitably shudder to a halt as you’re ripped out of the side of the building by something with more tentacles than manners.”

Just wanted to say that the first two sentences of this article are why I come to RPS.

Sweet gibley giblets! Now I know why my coal conversion gave me a 33% off Valve coupon – to buy Garry’s Mod and play this masterpiece! Oh benevolent Lord Steam, you work in mysterious ways. Anyone fancy a game tonight?

The mod and that video is great. I think they should put this quote on their umm boxart: “The most fun part of this game is realizing you have a cough and then wait five minutes so you can do it again.”

This is for Garry’s Mod, it’s not standalone! If you own it, merge the addons folder with your steam/steamapps/username/garrysmod/garrysmod/addons folder, and merge the gamemodes folder (it’s a separate download!) with the gamemodes folder.

When you get in-game, click on the Elevator map, then the wrench icon, and set the game mode to “Elevator”. Then you can play.